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Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tells about the harm that sports cause and how much the children are expected to show up. They are asked to perform much higher than their physical capacity. This causes severe mental issues. It always remains there, the expectations their parents have from them and also the stress or pressure they get from the fellow teammates. Statsky further says how much she dislikes this behavior of parents and the coaches towards the children…

Summary Jessica Statsky endeavor to convince people in her article "children’s Need, to Play not Compete," that there is something wrong with games by upsetting them over the hazards of such games. Statsky tells about both noncontact and physical games, played at six to twelve years old might contain time-consuming lug outcome for a child as a player and a supporter. Statsky describes many justifications about her point of view as well as the risk for physical and mental harm, and people those…

In “Are real or Artificial Christmas Trees Better for the Environment,” by Jessica Roy from the Los Angeles Times exposes the facts behind having an artificial or a real tree for the holidays or in your home. More specifically, she argues that both real and artificial come with costs. She writes,“ To grow real Christmas trees, you need dirt, water, pesticide and, fungicide. Then you need gasoline to harvest and transport them, as well as the human labor to do all of that.” Additionally, to…

internet famous. Becoming internet famous is easy any random person can become internet famous, the person just has to be liked by several others to build their fame. But a few people that become instant internet famous do not usually want the fame. In Jessica Bennett’s “The Flip Side of Internet Fame”, Bennett told how a student Ghyslain Raza became internet famous without wanting to. He was just filming videos of himself for his own entertainment and another student got a hold of the video and…

In Jessica Pishko’s essay, “Serving Life for Surviving Abuse,” she writes about the unfortunate event that happened to Kelly Savage. Pishko focuses on why Kelly got the outcome that she did and what it means for other women. Even though this essay is written in just five short pages, it really serves as an example to show what happens to those who were victims of abuse and how the court systems handle it. Pishko thoroughly explains Kelly’s story, includes eye opening facts about women in prison,…

Jessica Statsky brought up the topic of competitiveness in children in her article “Children Should Play. Not Compete”. She believes that children shouldn’t compete or experience real competition at their age. I disagree with her stance on the subject however, competitiveness is in all of our natures even young kids, especially kids I’d say. Children also need to develop a competitive nature about them in this day and age if they ever want to make a living. Statsky says little league sports are…

Behind the Scenes of Letters and Words We live in a generation that relies on texting, instant messaging and social media to communicate. None of which require the proper necessities when actually writing but instead consist of abbreviation, misspelled words, lack of punctuation and the list could go on. Writing seems as if it is becoming less and less of a thing as life goes on and technology grows. The thought of writing and reading going extinct one day is a very scary view and something we…

In the book What You Left Behind by Jessica Verdi, the character Ryden is faced with many difficult situations. He can't find the journals that he believes Meg has left him, but he is very determined to find them. My prediction is that Ryden will find the journals with the checklist in the back, and that he will tell Joni the truth and slowly start falling in love with her. I think this will happen with Joni because at work one day Ryden walked into the break room and witnessed Joni crying. She…

Below are the reasons and emotions of two students, Jessica Rocha-Da Silva and William Yan, who would like to nominate Marietta for a staff award. The first time I, Jessica Rocha-Da Silva, had met Marietta was back in first year. I had heard students, within my year, talk about her and how friendly she was. I decided to make an appointment with her and discuss a small problem I had about transferring courses. This was the best decision I made. The first couple of minutes in the appointment she…

significantly reduced . . . incarceration . . . are unsupported by the evidence” (137). While no statistics exist to prove that drug courts impact the amount of initial arrests, statistics do prove drug courts decrease the number of rearrests. In Jessica Huseman’s article “Drug Courts Are a Good Alternative for Drug Offenders” she reviews several scenarios in which individual or specific areas of drug courts have lowered to percentage of rearrests. In New York City, six drug courts decreased…